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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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